... a feeling that drawing those masked sprites in [I]Cobra[/I ... self-modifying wrap-around copy routine to copy it to the ...

... also no need for the masked sprites over it that [I ... takes longer than the scroll routine.

... style loop in the main routine using a notional value to ... for the computer sprite movement in the main routine somehow but ... your main game & sprite printing routines extremely carefully, counting ... seems to be potentially some sprite flicker. Or is there ...

... to keep up with the sprite requirements of a good Master ... two extra for the head sprite, maybe a couple of different ... looked low resolution, been poorly animated, had a lot of identical ... than a couple of hardware sprite-driven characters on-screen, most ...

... now want to call another routine the frequency based on the ... -12) and call your sprite movement routine with something like this: if ...

... 20 scanlines to update each sprite, which is quite a significant ... change position of sprite every frame but the sprite is animated only ocassionaly ... /> -change sprite position
-change sprite position
-change sprite gfx + change sprite position ...

... the screens simply illustrate the sprite work done so far.< ... of Tea (not animated)
Frogstar Scout (Animated)
UFO (Animated)
< ... course Arthur is the same sprite, and will be kept ... done a couple of computer sprite thingies - still have plenty ...

... scrolling, or with lots precise sprite movement, this technique would probably ... would be great with multicolour animated sprites (I've just posted ...

... scrolling, or with lots precise sprite movement, this technique would ... to move the hero sprite yourself on screen without ... reach could still use multicolor animated tiles, since they "cost" ... replace them with the hero sprite attributes, then afterwards put ...

... to compile the following sub-routine for no apparent reason (already ... /> 100 PRINT AT 20,1;"Animated tiles (4 frames)",
110 ...

... to provide a quick erase routine like [I]Buzzsaw+[/I] ... it simply floods the sprite area with a single ... 0) which makes the sprite disappear, even though it ... HALT, erase the last sprite positions, then draw them ... new position, then the sprite is removed and the ...

... need to move the hero sprite yourself on screen without bothering ... reach could still use multicolor animated tiles, since they "cost" exactly ...

... />
You just tell the routine how many sprites to assign ... can have moving sprites, or animated tiles, or one-off image ...

... ROM). If you position a sprite off-screen it still goes ... next, comes after the colour routine, when precise timing doesn't ...

... ROM). If you position a sprite off-screen it still goes ... next, comes after the colour routine, when precise timing doesn't ...

... so you can still use animated multicolor tiles in other parts ... some parts of the same sprite could be rendered with different ...

... game will be using... Masked sprites means we can ... have background scenary, Non-masked means we can't ... screen number.
- Sprite system is simple, non- ... players path.
- Sprite will thus detect screen pixels ... adding much to have masked sprites in a game ...

... the description of the main sprite's animated todger..?!?

... the description of the main sprite's animated todger..?!?[/QUOTE]

I just realized this routine (and even its current graphic ... will only need a hero sprite at a fixed X-position ...

... ;615896]I just realized this routine (and even its current graphic ... will only need a hero sprite at a fixed X-position ...

... the call will be the routine that is never being RET ... a sprite or vector table). This might help locate the offending routine.

... the call will be the routine that is never being RET ... a sprite or vector table). This might help locate the offending routine ...

I still need a person who can manage a sprite/object/switch/event, all-the-stuff routine for the game :(

... manage a sprite/object/switch/event, all-the-stuff routine for the ...

... an interrupt mode 2 service routine and uses POP and PUSH ... now write all your
sprite and text routines to print ... the buffered display and the routine will
automatically sort it ... a 20 column vertical scrolling routine*. Though in data terms I ...

... on granting credit for a routine that tokenizes a string using ... one should always write your sprite code for each game from ... I wouldn't rewrite my sprite routines from scratch for each ... />
He was on about sprite code specifically though, which has ...

... all the frames for each sprite's animation. Here's an ... 't remember if there are animated backgrounds. I don't think ... can handle programming with a sprite engine provided to you (you ... would issue move sprite commands and the engine does ...

... not have to shift the sprite horizontally. Pixel precision vertically means ... Satan a LOAD + OCCLUDING sprite which means it just directly ... loads the sprite bytes to screen without background ... could use a faster xor routine, eg, but I wouldn' ...

... not have to shift the sprite horizontally. Pixel precision vertically means ... Satan a LOAD + OCCLUDING sprite which means it just directly ... loads the sprite bytes to screen without background ... could use a faster xor routine, eg, but I wouldn' ...